Figure 2
From: Light scattering and surface plasmons on small spherical particles
Relative scattering cross-sections of (a) a water particle with reflective index n=1.33, (b) a glass particle with reflective index n=1.97 and (c) ideal particle with very high reflective index n=200 as the functions of dimensionless size parameter q. The first maximum of Qsc happens for the quantity 2q(n−1)∼4. The case of refractive index n=200 represents n∼∞. Qsc approaches 2πa2 at large q.
